By Ray Matapang, Ewa Beach
I got this from various sources, what do I know? Many of us love Tango and in Tango, there is a closed position as in other types of ballroom dance, but it differs significantly between types of tango. In ordinary partner dancing, the closed position is a category of positions in which partners hold each other while facing at least approximately toward each other. Ballroom dance refers collectively to a set of Partner dances which originated in Europe and are now enjoyed both socially and competitively around the world.
In Argentine Tango, the "close embrace" involves continuous contact at the full upper body, but not the legs. In American Ballroom tango, the "close embrace" involves close contact in the pelvis or upper thighs, but not the upper body. Followers are instructed to thrust their hips forward, but pull their upper body away, and the ladies, shyly look over their left shoulder when they are led into a "corte. "In Argentine tango open position, the legs may be intertwined and hooked together, in the style called, in Spanish, El Pulpo, (the Octopus).
In Pulpo's style, these hooks are not sharp, staccato ganchos, but smooth ganchos. Ballroom tango steps stay close to the floor, while the Argentine Tango includes moves such as the boleo (allowing momentum to carry one's leg into the air) and gancho (hooking one's leg around one's partner's leg or body) in which the feet travel off the ground. Gancho means "hook" in Spanish and Portuguese, and describes certain "hooking actions" in some dances of Latin American heritage. Not done very often on Oahu, it is just tricks and too fancy.
I got this from various sources, what do I know? Many of us love Tango and in Tango, there is a closed position as in other types of ballroom dance, but it differs significantly between types of tango. In ordinary partner dancing, the closed position is a category of positions in which partners hold each other while facing at least approximately toward each other. Ballroom dance refers collectively to a set of Partner dances which originated in Europe and are now enjoyed both socially and competitively around the world.
"The tango is a direct expression of something that poets have often tried to state in words, the belief that a fight may be a celebration." ~ Jorge Luis Borges
In Argentine Tango, the "close embrace" involves continuous contact at the full upper body, but not the legs. In American Ballroom tango, the "close embrace" involves close contact in the pelvis or upper thighs, but not the upper body. Followers are instructed to thrust their hips forward, but pull their upper body away, and the ladies, shyly look over their left shoulder when they are led into a "corte. "In Argentine tango open position, the legs may be intertwined and hooked together, in the style called, in Spanish, El Pulpo, (the Octopus).
In Pulpo's style, these hooks are not sharp, staccato ganchos, but smooth ganchos. Ballroom tango steps stay close to the floor, while the Argentine Tango includes moves such as the boleo (allowing momentum to carry one's leg into the air) and gancho (hooking one's leg around one's partner's leg or body) in which the feet travel off the ground. Gancho means "hook" in Spanish and Portuguese, and describes certain "hooking actions" in some dances of Latin American heritage. Not done very often on Oahu, it is just tricks and too fancy.
“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.” ― Aldous Huxley,
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